It’s been announced that The World Is Dancing (ワールド イズ ダンシング ) manga by Mihara Kazuto has been green-lit for a TV anime adaptation, which is set to premiere in the Summer of 2026. A teaser video and visual for the anime have been revealed, along with an illustration by Mihara.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCKN502lik]
Kuroyanagi Toshimasa is directing the anime at Cygames Pictures, and the anime will star Hanamori Yumiri as the protagonist Oniyasha.
Mihara (Sora Tobu Violin) started the manga in March 2021 in Kodansha’s Morning Weekly magazine and ended it in October 2022. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2021, and the manga’s sixth and final volume was released in November 2022.
Kodansha USA Publishing has released all six of the manga volumes in English under the title The World Is Dancing. It describes the manga below:
“Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come.
A fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater-the world’s oldest surviving theater art-this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.’
